Arrieta Leads Cubs Past Orioles 4-1

Summary of 2 articles · Updated Aug 22, 2014

Jake Arrieta shut down his former team, holding Baltimore to four hits in seven innings and Javier Baez homered again as the Chicago Cubs beat the Orioles 4-1 on Friday. The Orioles traded Arrieta to Chicago in a multi-player deal during last season. The … (more)Orioles traded Arrieta to Chicago with reliever Pedro Strop in a multi-player deal during last season. Baltimore's Nelson Cruz hit his major league-leading 34th homer, a solo shot off Arrieta in the seventh. Davis was thrown out at the plate in the fifth on strong throw from Sweeney in right field when he tried to score on Caleb Joseph's sharp single, the Orioles' second hit. Baez hit a towering shot just inside the left-field foul pole, on a 3-2 pitch with two out in the fifth to make it 3-0.